Lennox `Friends` With Funkster

July 19, 1985|Rolling Stone

Though Annie Lennox is divorcing her husband, Rada, she and master funkster George Clinton are just friends. They met in the studio in Detroit where she and Aretha Franklin were recording Sisters Are Doin` It for Themselves, a cut on the Eurythmics` Be Yourself Tonight LP.

Clinton was next door, finishing up his new solo LP, which features his best title yet: Some of My Best Jokes Are Friends. George is now producing a record for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Annie`s acting in a film called Revolution.

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David Byrne hasn`t become a man of the cloth, but he acts like one in Dead End Kids: The History of Nuclear Power, a feature film adapted from a play staged in 1980 by New York theater company Mabou Mines.

JoAnne Akalaitis directs, and Byrne is also writing the score. His solo record Music for the Knee Plays is just out, as is a new Talking Heads album. Then David gets started on True Stories, a film he`ll write and direct. Byrne, baby, Byrne.

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Elizabeth Daily, 22, and Jellybean Benitez, 27, are about to make waves. Daily`s an actress who costarred in Valley Girl and Streets of Fire, and will appear in Pee-Wee`s Big Adventure this summer. She`s also a singer.

She used to do vocals for Giorgio Moroder`s demos, but now she`s making her own LP, with board brain Jellybean helping out. Though he started as a DJ- remixer, Benitez has gone on to produce his old flame, Madonna, and ``good friends`` like Jane Wiedlin and Phoebe Cates. Now he`s so hot that a film based on his life as a DJ is in the works.